Mountain View teachers are among our most valued local employees - and this will go a long way towards retaining some that now drive long distances to work here. I think there was a lot of thought put into this - the lottery system, the independence of who selects those housed, verification of employment, etc. - and I congratulate those working towards the success of this program.
We need to do the same for our fire and police. When the county's median income is $125,000/year, it makes housing difficult for some of the most vital people working here in Mountain View.

Just pay the teachers more money. It’s a whole lot cheaper. What are they going to do when they then have to pay tenants to move out per Measure V?

What kind of nuts are running things that they would scam taxpayers in this way?

It's telling [Word removed] who you think are "worthy" of having homes in Mountain View. What about the people who take your trash, clean your house, cook your food, serve your food, clean your office, take care of your children, clean your street? Tough luck, eh?

Ah yes, a board and superintendent unqualified in basic economics enacting socialist policies. This will be fun to watch.

But I guess teacher housing like this is important, particularly for all the teachers Superintendent Rudolph will be pulling in from his old districts to come to Mountain View. How else will they afford Silicon Valley prices when compared to Mayberry, North Carolina?

This is equivalent to having a lottery and giving 144 people to give a raise. Let's just give them a raise without the cost of construction.

That's exactly what happens when regulations do not let market to sort things out. Teachers cannot afford living in this area not because of the nature of their profession. It's because of their relatively low pay and totally unbalanced supply and demand. Teachers salaries are whatever they are because of low property taxes, i.e. Prop 13. And housing inventory is low because of rudimentary zoning.

The generation of teachers who grew up in this area and don't have to pay market price for housing is retiring. The quality of new hires is declining even in LASD schools.

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I see your point that giving teachers pay raises instead of subsided housing may be cheaper or better in other ways but I couldn't see myself voting to raise wages just to see it all go straight to the landlords through the outrageous "market-rate" rents around here.

Fully support teacher housing and the school districts investing in that.

However that deal sounds like a sizable giveaway to the developer. The developer was mandated to provide and finance these affordable units as part of the City requirements (x% of affordable housing included in the project). Since it seems that the school district is now paying for these units, doesn't the deal result into a nice multi-million dollars savings for the developer? Is the developer even contributing any money to build these units? If not, at a bare minimum, the developer should be required to make a sizable monetary contribution/donation to the school district.

Also looking forward more clarity on the City's financial role in the deal.